From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932955Ab0KQFd4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:33:56 -0500 Received: from tango.tkos.co.il ([62.219.50.35]:55123 "EHLO tango.tkos.co.il" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751349Ab0KQFdz (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:33:55 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:32:51 +0200 From: Baruch Siach To: Jiri Slaby Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Greg KH , "H. Peter Anvin" , Alex Gershgorin , Indan Zupancic Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] drivers/misc: Altera active serial implementation Message-ID: <20101117053251.GA26928@jasper.tkos.co.il> References: <4CE0FE71.6000303@suse.cz> <20101115100838.GA3649@jasper.tkos.co.il> <4CE10B32.8090705@suse.cz> <20101116110444.2f0cabd9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4CE28299.30907@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CE28299.30907@suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Jiri, Alan, On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 02:09:45PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > On 11/16/2010 12:04 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > > Sixteen devices is way too many for drivers/misc - it only has 256 total > > and only half of those are dynamic. > > Seconded. (And it's a quarter, not even a half like I already wrote.) If I reduce the maximal number of devices to 4, will it make any difference? I don't mind even having a limit of 2 by default, as long as a simple define change is enough to raise this limit. baruch -- ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - baruch@tkos.co.il - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il -